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Ecuador’s Foreign Trade Committee’s COMEX Resolution 019 (September 10, 2014) stipulates that processed food product imports receive prior Ministry of Agriculture authorization.

On December 11, Ecuador’s AGROCALIDAD confirmed acceptance of USDA Quito’s proposal to implement a 30-day quarantine period for blue tongue disease.

Ecuador’s food processing industry is a key player within the country’s manufacturing sector, accounting for about 45 percent of the manufacturing sector’s contribution to the country’s GDP.

This report outlines Ecuador’s requirements for food and agricultural product imports.

On December 4, 2014, the Vietnamese Office of the Government released Decree 116/2014/ND-CP promulgating detailed provisions of some articles of the Law on Plant Protection and Quarantine.

U.S. seafood exports have grown 150 percent in 2014 year-to-date to almost $90 million.

U.S. seafood exports have grown 150 percent in 2014 year-to-date to almost $90 million.

Ecuador’s Foreign Trade Committee (COMEX) resolved on November 26, 2014, to extend the current tariff and duty exemption for soybean meal imports from all origins (including the United States).

Despite slower growth forecast for 2015 and measures to restrict imports, Ecuador offers U.S. food and agricultural product exporters a number of trade possibilities.

On October 31, 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) released Circular 35/2014/TT-BNNPTNT publishing the list of plant quarantine pests of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The report provides trade data on Vietnam's monthly rice exports by grades and destinations, and weekly quotes for export rice by grades.

Post revises its coffee production forecast for Marketing Year (MY) 2014/15 to 29.3 million 60-kg bags (bags), or 1.76 Million Metric Tons (MMT) of green coffee beans.